Citizens for a Healthy Community

A nonprofit organization

$177,950 raised by 320 donors

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Testimonials

I am a chef who cooks locally and requires pristine organic environments to source my food from, without these natural spaces, our food and balance of life are put in jeopardy. --Merrick S.

Please keep the NFV healthy. It's taken many years to rid the soils from DDT poison used as a pesticide before I moved to Hotchkiss in 1971. Please keep oil & gas leasing on any Land out of this pristine area of CO. --Babs O.

Mission

Protecting Delta County's food, air, and watersheds from the impact of oil and gas development.

Background Statement

Oil and gas development, and particularly the relatively new technology of high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), has expanded across Colorado faster than reasonable scientific assessment, monitoring, and regulation of the industry.

Seeing the consequences of development on communities like Rifle and Silt, a group of concerned North Fork Valley residents began to meet and formed Citizens for a Healthy Community in 2009. CHC represents a population unwilling to accept oil and gas development by an industry that cannot be held accountable for impacts to human health and the environment.

CHC envisions a day when:

1. Delta County Region's food, air, and water-shed are no longer threatened by large-scale industrial oil and gas operations

3. Elected officials, agency personnel, and citizens use science as the basis for decision-making.

4. Regulatory agencies err on the side of caution and protecting public health by denying a proposed action when scientific uncertainty exists regarding the potential harm of the action.

5. One industry is not allowed to supplant another (i.e, invasive gas and oil development does not have the right to ruin agricultural and tourism based industries).

Organization Data

Summary

Organization name

Citizens for a Healthy Community

other names

CHC

Year Established

2010

Tax id (EIN)

27-2139467

Category

Environment

Organization Size

Small Organization

Address

PO Box 1283
Paonia, CO 81428

Other

The Harvester Building 211 Grand Ave, Suite 118
Paonia, CO 81428

Service areas

Delta County, CO, US

Other

970-399-9700

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